Friday, November 28, 2014

They're having a Secret Santa gift giving at hubby's work today and it came upon me, of course, to put everything together. He did find out that the recipient (whom he doesn't know at all!!) likes cooking and that was a lot of fun for me to pick and choose. Here's the tag and bag I made:

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

So the Christmas decorations are up. I heard the first Christmas 'pop' song on the radio the other day. We must be speeding towards it!
At DS4J we have our CHRISTMAS challenge! So link up all your Christmas creations.

Sunday, November 23, 2014

I love doodling and used to go through pages of paper at University and that's why I really enjoy the concept of "zentangle". You just go where your mind takes you. Here's the first of a series in zentangle numbers available at the DS4J shop:

After colouring I covered the number with Glossy Accents for some texture and shine.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

We have been experiencing slightly unseasonal cool weather here in the Southern Hemisphere and I am SO thankful!! So making an Autumn card was fitting in beautifully. Our challenge this week at Moving Along With the Times is

On the home front I am sitting with a little girl with a broken leg and that has been a bit like having a new baby in the house. Poor angel is very brave but very dependent again on Mom!

I did have some time to make a card for my fellow DS4J DT member, SARA who is also over at the Naughty or Nice Challenge blog. Their challenge? Holiday Animals.
Margy (owner at DS4J) created this very cute "Giraffe with Christmas lights" and it immediately popped to mind when I saw the challenge.

Sunday, November 16, 2014

And here is my third release today at Digistamps4Joy. You can either use it as a type of background as I did here or as a frame for a sentiment / image:

My sister is in Musical Theatre (teaching, producing, directing, choreography, script writing ... you name it) and this reminded me so much of her! And then I had the perfect sentiment to go with it! (GinaK Designs Petals & Wings)

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Oh how I miss Autumn! Here we have already experienced high summer temperatures and I just melt! Rather give me cool or even cold weather so I can function! So at Digistamps4Joy we are PREPARING FOR THE HOLIDAYS OR FALL. I'll be with my Northern Hemisphere friends in spirit :D
Here's my card using some of the images in my Winter Warmers set:

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Don't you just love it when you have the perfect image or sentiment for a challenge? I did a little happy dance when I saw our new SPARKLE / SHINE challenge for Moving Along With The Times because I immediately knew which image and sentiment I was going to use! There was no alternative!

I paper pieced the cupcake wrapper with the same sparkle embossed background DP (my last of the paper pad which was my very first 6x6 paper pad I ever bought! Prima I think). The word "SPARKLE" and the crown was first coloured with Spectrum Noir and then I covered it with Sakura Stardust pen.

Sunday, November 2, 2014

You can never have enough flowers, right? So here are some tulips for you :D

"Tulip pot" will be available from today in the DS4J shop. I added my "Butterfly beauty" image as an embellishment. The tulips & butterfly coloured with SPECTRUM NOIRS.
All papers from Webster's Pages "Family traditions".

My new image, Beach Umbrella, is being released today and I had in mind all the other great nautical images in the DS4J shop when I drew it. And then when I had to make something with it, I thought, how about making one HUGE merged image with some of my favourite beach and ocean images? But I couldn't fit it all onto one card! What to do? Make a 'magnetic scene' with it!

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I printed all my selected images (links below) out onto a printable magnet sheet. They are not very thick and the magnet is not very strong, but it does stick where it touches the metal backing directly. I put it on an old scrubbed baking sheet. This is what the packaging looks like:

I just added some torn strips of kraft-core paper and glued some off-cuts of the magnet sheets to the backs. You can still slide the images in-between the layers as well.

I could easily add another dozen images to this, like Jen's swimming costume girls, or my box kite! Who knows I might add some more for fun :D